{"id":697451,"date":"2026-04-04T08:13:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/697451\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T08:13:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:13:36","slug":"boston-and-toronto-meet-for-conference-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/697451\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston and Toronto meet for conference showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toronto Raptors<\/a> (43-34, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Boston Celtics<\/a> (52-25, second in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Boston; Sunday, 3:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Celtics -9.5; over\/under is 221.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Jaylen Brown<\/a> and the Boston Celtics host Scottie Barnes<\/a> and the Toronto Raptors.<\/p>\n

The Celtics are 33-15 in conference matchups. Boston scores 114.6 points while outscoring opponents by 7.5 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Raptors are 30-17 in conference matchups. Toronto is third in the Eastern Conference scoring 52.9 points per game in the paint led by RJ Barrett<\/a> averaging 10.3.<\/p>\n

The Celtics average 114.6 points per game, 2.5 more points than the 112.1 the Raptors give up. The Raptors average 11.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.7 fewer made shots on average than the 14.1 per game the Celtics allow.<\/p>\n

The teams square off for the fourth time this season. The Celtics won the last matchup 125-117 on Jan. 10, with Payton Pritchard<\/a> scoring 27 points in the victory.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Brown is averaging 28.7 points, seven rebounds and 5.3 assists for the Celtics. Jayson Tatum<\/a> is averaging 19.9 points, 9.5 rebounds and 4.8 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Barnes is averaging 18.2 points, 7.5 rebounds, 5.9 assists, 1.5 steals and 1.5 blocks for the Raptors. Ja’Kobe Walter is averaging 2.6 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Celtics: 8-2, averaging 117.3 points, 47.5 rebounds, 24.8 assists, 6.1 steals and 3.8 blocks per game while shooting 47.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 107.7 points per game.<\/p>\n

Raptors: 5-5, averaging 120.6 points, 40.2 rebounds, 34.4 assists, 10.3 steals and 5.5 blocks per game while shooting 52.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.5 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Celtics: Nikola Vucevic: out (finger).<\/p>\n

Raptors: Immanuel Quickley: out (foot).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Raptors (43-34, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Boston Celtics (52-25, second in the Eastern Conference) Boston;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3770],"tags":[7,75,78812,78,77,1407,6,405,681,1041,1261,680,476,3820],"class_list":{"0":"post-697451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-raptors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston-celtics","10":"tag-event_preview","11":"tag-jaylen-brown","12":"tag-jayson-tatum","13":"tag-national-basketball-association","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-payton-pritchard","16":"tag-raptors","17":"tag-rj-barrett","18":"tag-scottie-barnes","19":"tag-toronto","20":"tag-toronto-raptors","21":"tag-torontoraptors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116345441642673767","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}